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Crist, who as a Republican governor in 2008 credited 10-20-Life with helping reduce crime, said Thursday that the law should be reviewed after hearing about the case of a Riviera Beach man sentenced to 80 years for firing a gun into the air in an incident in which no one was injured.

Scott’s campaign responded today with a statement from 23 sheriffs:

“Policies that have kept violent criminals behind bars are a big part of Florida being at a 43-year crime low. Charlie Crist’s reversal on his support of 10-20-Life legislation and mandatory minimums threatens the incredible progress we have made over the last 15 years to make Florida safe for families and visitors.”

Said Crist spokesman Kevin Cate: “Charlie Crist supports 10-20-life and simply suggested like every law, we should make sure it’s working right. That’s the difference between being a Leader like Charlie Crist, and being a politician like Rick Scott, who would rather play gotcha politics than govern.”

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That law i think was for the so call "war on drugs" that target african american you got your jail full of black men now its time and what must be done,look at how the law is applied,the war on drugs fail.

I want to share
with you one last story. It is the story of a young man who lived in public
housing as a kid who never knew his natural father, who saw his adopted dad
struggle to keep a job.That young man, of course, was Scott.

“I’ve seen what
happens to families who are struggling to find work. I’ve had Christmas without
any presents. And I don’t want any of our people to ever feel stuck in those
situations.”

Scott became
thoroughly unstuck from such a situation by heading up a company that paid a
record $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud, leaving that job with a $300
million golden parachute and spending $73 million of that money to buy the
governor’s office of a state that turned down $51 billion of federal money to
provide health care for 1 million poor Floridians, those very Floridians he
says he wants to help.

@RicFlair, I agree with your comment except that it wasn`t $600 million, It was more in the $1 Billion plus, Tricky Rick SNOTT is nothing but A CROOK! Plain and simple, And only IDIOTS vote for him, Well, BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOT`S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott founded Columbia Hospital Corp, which then merged with
Hospital Corp of America,
forming Columbia/HCA. He was appointed CEO when this merger went through.

He received a vote of no confidence from the
Board of Directors and was asked to resign as Chief Executive of Columbia/HCA
in 1997 after the company admitted to fourteen felonies and agreed to pay the
federal government over $600 million, which was the largest fraud settlement in
US history; Scott took the 5th over 70 times during his questioning.

Scott on jobs: "Florida
is going to come nowhere near exceeding normal job growth by 700,000 in seven
years, no matter how you define it or time it," said David Denslow, a
retired University
of Florida economist.

Scott promised an economy better off because of
his policies, but many of his ideas from the campaign did not survive, said Rollins College economics professor William
Seyfried.

Economists doubt he will reach his original goal
— and that's putting aside an argument about how much his policies affect job
growth.

Scott's latest double talk: “The bottom line is,
I could argue that I don’t have to create any jobs,” Scott said on 540-AM in
Maitland. “I just have to make sure we don’t lose jobs.“

Putting ideology over the welfare of Floridians,
rejected the billions in federal aid that would flow to the state. The state
was slated to receive more than $7.5 billion for schools, roads and other
projects under the American Jobs Act. The White House estimates that the funds
under the plan would support more than 60,000 jobs in Florida, including those held by teachers,
cops, and firefighters.

Continue to spin yarns about Scott. The one
thing he proved is that knows how to mastermind a fraud.